My watch list
my.bionity.com  
Login  
ENCYCLOPEDIA

Search Encyclopedia

bionity.com's Life Science Encyclopedia provides articles for 57,945 entries from biotechnology, pharmaceutics, medicine and biology as well as related scientific disciplines.

Definitions

Flight feather

Flight feather (Milvus milvus) in flight, showing remiges and rectrices Flight feathers are the long, stiff, asymmetrically shaped, but symmetrically paired feather s on the wing s or tail of a bird ; those on the wings are called remiges (singular remex) while those on the tail are called rectri more

Cell nucleus

Cell nucleus cells stained for DNA with the Blue Hoechst dye. The central and rightmost cell are in interphase , thus their entire nuclei are labeled. On the left a cell is going through mitosis and its nucleus has disintegrated in preparation of division. s: (1) nucleolus (2) nucleus (3) r more

Convention on Psychotropic Substances

Convention on Psychotropic Substances The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is a United Nations treaty designed to control psychoactive drug s such as amphetamine s, barbiturate s, and psychedelics . During the 1960s, drug use increased greatly around the world, especially in Western nations. more

DNA

DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms . The main role of DNA molecule s is the long-term storage of information . DNA is often compared to a set of blueprints, since it cont more

Bacteria

Bacteria A bacterium (plural: bacteria) is a unicellular microorganism . Typically a few micrometre s in length, individual bacteria have a wide-range of shapes, ranging from sphere s to rods to spirals. Bacteria are ubiquitous in every habitat on Earth , growing in soil, acidic hot springs , more

Your browser is not current. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 does not support some functions on Chemie.DE